Thesis announcement

[Brian Sallans]

Dear connectionists,

I am pleased to announce the availability of my PhD thesis:

             Reinforcement Learning for
         Factored Markov Decision Processes

                   Brian Sallans
               University of Toronto

Abstract:
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~brian/pthesis/pthabstract.html

Download:
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~brian/pthesis/

This thesis discusses the combination of learning and inference
in graphical models with reinforcement learning.   It may be of
interest to researchers working in either area.

The thesis is available in PostScript, PDF or HTML format.
There is also Matlab code implementing the experimental tasks
used in the thesis.

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Brian Sallans                                        brian at ai.univie.ac.at
Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence         URL: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~brian
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